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A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1784 / by the President [Sir Joshua Reynolds]

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/2063

Author

Variant Title

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1788. By the President.

Imprint

London:: Printed by Thomas Cadell, Printer to the Royal Academy., M.DCC.LXXXV. (M.DCC.LXXXIX.)

Physical Description

2 volumes in one ; 290 mm. (1785 vol.); 264 mm. (1789 vol.). (Folio.)

Series Title

Reynolds Discourse: XII & XIV.

General Note

Vol. I: [4], 32 pages - Vol. II: [4], 26 pages.
Reynolds' 12th and 14th Discourses.
'[ Price Three Shillings. ]' [Half-title of 1784 discourse].`[PRICE THREE SHILLINGS]' [Half-title of 1788 discourse].

Contents

Both volumes have the same format: [Half-title, t.p.] - [Text].

References

J. Reynolds, Discourses on art, ed. P. Rogers (2000); J. Barrell, The political theory of painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986); W.J. Hipple, 'General and particular in the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds', in Journal Aesth. and Art Crit., 11 (1953), p.231-47 (rev. in The beautiful, the sublime and the picturesque in 18th-century British aesthetic theory, 1957).
ESTC, T31958 ; T31960
Hilles, F.W. The literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 20 & 24.

Summary Note

Reynolds's first Discourse was delivered at the opening of the Academy on 2 January 1769; the remainder were delivered in December at the Academy's awards of prizes to students - numbers II-V annually (1769-1772), numbers VI-XV every two years (1774-1790) with the exception of number IX, delivered in October 1780 to mark the Academy's move into Somerset House.

Copy Note

The 1784 discourse (published 1785) is inscribed on its half-title in ink, 'from the author'. The 1788 discourse (published 1789) is inscribed in ink on its half-title, 'Mrs Walsingham from the Author'.

Binding Note

20th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper cover having gilt-stamped borders and lettered 'Reynolds' Discourses.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Art - Painting - Theory
Student competitions - Students - Great Britain - London - 18th century
Speeches - Lectures - Great Britain - London - 18th century

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